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Lets cut to the chase: according to a new article, one of the main reasons why the United States has kept the 1996 Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) until today is because America wanted to steal Iran’s potential Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) customers.

The United States was able to do this as the 1996 Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) targeted European and Asian firms investing more than $20 million for the development of oil in Iran. “While ILSA did not explicitly ban investments in LNG, it made those investments more challenging”, the new article states.

Meanwhile, the United States used the absence of Iran to give its:

“own extractive industries an opportunity to fill the market demand that would have instead been available for Iranian LNG exports.”

So while Iran was under sanctions, the US developed its LNG sector. As a result, Iran has a non-existent LNG sector and can’t export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), because of the sanctions, and yet the US in a few weeks will start its first LNG exports to customers around the globe.